Saturday, February 25, 2012

RIP Dmitri Nabokov (1934-2012)

Image source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/books/dmitri-nabokov-steward-of-his-fathers-literary-legacy-dies-at-77.html?_r=1&hpw

Dmitri Nabokov, son of the great novelist Vladimir Nabokov, died Wednesday in Vevey, Switzerland. He was 77 years old.

During his life, Dmitri Nabokov was "a bon vivant, a professional opera singer, a race car driver and a mountain climber," to quote the New York Times. He also never married, leaving no immediate survivors.

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